Humanae Vitae, an earthquake for believers?
(2023) European Academy of Religion Annual Conference 2023 — Location: St-Andrews, Scotland (19.June.2023)
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- “Moreover, the practice has not changed. Women continued to take the pill, afterwards as before” : Humanae Vitae, an earthquake for believers? Published in July 1968, Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae – Of Human Life – is described in the scientific literature as an "earthquake" for Catholics. Three years after the Council's postponed discussions and a report of the Pontifical Commission on Birth Control, the Pope expressly condemned contraception, declared any so-called "artificial" method of birth control "intrinsically dishonest". Humanae Vitae came as a surprise because of the gap between Church's more traditional positions and public opinion in favor of a relaxation of morality: it was perceived as anachronic by its contemporaries.
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Banse Wauty, C. (2023). Humanae Vitae, an earthquake for believers? European Academy of Religion Annual Conference 2023, St-Andrews, Scotland. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/164128